Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 27, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 18 December 1908 — Page 1

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A SUCCESSFUL FAIR. Fifth Annual Event Given By the Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist Church. The church fair given under the auepicee of the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist church, in the basement of the church, closed Friday evening and was quite a success. The excellent menus served by the ladies upon tables tastefully decorated were well patron- • ized. The various booths were in most instances fairly well patronized, but not so well as the ladies had hoped, the rather close times interfering in a measure with the ready sale of some of the more expensive pieces of fancy work, which bad been prepared with so much work and skill by the ladies. However, the success of the fair in a general way was gratifying. The booths, with their artistic, dainty decorations, presented a beautiful and animating scene. Music by the orchestra each afternoon and evening was a pleasing feature. This was the fifth annual fair given by the Ladies’ Aid Society and each one has been a pleasant social affair as well as a success financially. It requires a vast amount of hard work to prepare for these fairs, and the society is entitled to great credit for the spirit and energy which it puts into these annual occasions, the earnings of which are contributed toward paying for the new church building. The total re ceipts of the fair were about $l5O and the net proceeds about $125. By or Buy? Which? Mr. Merchant, do you want to make or lose money this winter? There is no good reason for any "winter dullness” in any store this season. No store ever suffered from business dullness that was not traceable either to accidents or to letting up of the store’s selling "push.” You yourself have the power to decide whether your store shall lag behind or go ahead. If you don’t get out hard after trade, people will go to your store; if you get after their trade, people will buy at your store. By or buy? Which? The answer is your answer to the question, will you advertise? Meeting of County Assessors. The state board of tax commissioners is preparing for a meeting of the county assessors of the state to be held in the state house the first week in January. The meeting is one of instruction, in order that the assessors over the state may determine upon some uniform method of determining how to fix valuations upon the property of citizens and corporations at a figure just to the taxpayer and to the state. A Good Endorsement. "Knox, Ind., Dec. 10, 1908. My Dear Mr. Wolfe: — In prompt reply to your favor of yesterday, regarding “The Widow McCarty” show, would say that they played my house October 30, and that they gave such good satisfaction that I asked them to play here again. Wishing you success, I am as ever, Your Friend, Gus Reiss. Nearly everybody knows DeWitt's Little Early Risers are the best pills made. They are small, pleasant, sure Little Liver pills. Sold by Red Cross Drug Store. Benjamin Purnell, founder of the House of David, Benton Harbor’s colony of Flying Rollers, the sect whose members believe and are taught they will never die, is in line to become an employe of the United States government. The colony’s headquarters are located just outside the city limits and Benjamin has asked the government to establish a poetoffice of the fourth class on the Israelite ground.

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THE GLOBE, FOR FANCY CHRISTMAS PRESENTS SWELL HANDKERCHIEFS, MUFFLERS, TIES, EIC

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inspection of Indiana University Every county in the state was repre- ; eented at the Chapel exercises at Indiana University at Bloomington reeent- ; ly, held in honor of the Indiana Legislative Committee. This committee, ap pointed by the Governor to investigate the condition and needs of the state in- | stitutions, has just completed its ini spection of the University, its buildings, grounds, accounts, reports, etc. The committee consists of Senator Horace Hanna, of Plainfield, and Representatives Creiger, of LaPorte, and Sicks, of Lebanon. This is only one of three reports that the University makes to the State. In addition to this one the University officials report biennially to the Governor of the State and semi-annually to the State Auditor. “The fact that Indiana University is a state institution cannot be emphasized too strongly, said President W. L. Bryan recently. “It belongs to the Sta te, is supervised by the State and makes its accounting to the State. It is part and parcel of the free educational system of Indiana.” Finding Honey in a Bay Window. For some time it was known that bees had formed a hive in the bay window of the Dailey block, between the bottom of the window and the floor of the second story, but as it was something of a task to get at the bees no one took the trouble to invade their hive until Monday, when W. H. Smith performed the feat with success. By taking out the bottom of the bay window and burning some sulphur, which suffocated the bees, he soon had possession of their rendezvous, but not until after one of the bees, with a little more ginger than the rest, had crawled up Mr. Smith’s coat-sleeve and gave a parting jab with his weapon of defense. About 20 pounds of honey of good quality was found in the hive as a reward for Mr. Smith’s efforts, A FATAL HORSE DISEASE. Said To Be Caused From Eating Rattle-box Weed. Recent accounts have appeared in the papers of a mysterious disease which has caused the death of hundreds of horses in the Kankakee region in the counties of Starke, Pulaski, LaPorte and Porter. The horses, as a rule, when attacked by the malady, drooped as if consumptive, and Anally died. In a few instances they recovered, but when they did they were mere wrecks and had to be killed. .It is now claimed that this same disease has been destroying hundreds of horses in lowa, where it is known as the "bottom disease” and is said to be the result of horses eating a poisonous weed known as the "rattle-box,” which seems to paralyze the nerve centers of the ani mal’s stomach and intestines which almost invariably causes death. In an interview with an lowa man regarding this disease the Chesterton Tribune says: "The similarity of the disease that attacked Mr. Stevens' horses and those of the farmers of the Kankakee river regions was postively established when he stated that mules pastured with horses that became victims of the fatal poison were not similarly affected. He accounted for this fact by saying that mules were able to discern the poisonous “rattle box" from the non-poisonous grasses and weeds and consequently refused to eat it. It will be remembered that when hundreds of horses of Porter, LaPorte, Pulaski and Starke counties fell under the fatal effects of the strange affliction a few months ago not one mule became similarly afflicted, the result being that many farmers went into Kentucky and purchased mules, to replace their horses.” The Globe, fancy neckwear. Try our steam baked b^ead. Everybody likes it. At Shirley’s.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNVY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1908.

NEW MEXICO LETTER. Indiana Colony Near Las Vegas--Pleased With The Country East Las Vegas, N. M., Dec. 7, 08. Editor Independent: Enclosed find $1 75 for the Independent and Weekly Inter Ocean for one year. We had quite a enow storm here last week which was about 10 inches deep. This snow is a nice thing for us. It is the making of our country, as it will produce good crops for us next season if we take care of the moisture. We are having fine weather today and the enow is melting fast and we can plow again in a few days. Frank McEndarfer and hie father, Uncle Allen and Mr. Keim, from my neighborhood north of Teegarden, were down here and paid us a visit. They think this country is all right. We were glad to see our old neighborst, Solomon Burkholder and wife, from near Teegarden, were also to see us last week and they were with us six days. They think this country is all right. I bought my farm from the Gaylor & Keifer Land company, who had about 23,000 acres which is nearly all sold. We were the first family to move out here. 1 here are 35 people here, consisting of seven families, and we are all from Indiana. John Rummel of Wakarusa came with hie family last week on the Gaylor & Keifer car. He shipped a car of household goods which will be here in a few days and there will be a lot more people come between now and spring. It won’t be long until our country will be settled with eastern people. Frank D. Shroll. Conscience Pricks Him. Editor Shesler, of the Akron News, has received a letter from a former Akron butcher named Frank Spera, whose conscience is now troubling him in hie Oregon home because back in Indiana he sold lard to hie customers in which he had mixed tallow. The repentant Spera writes: “I want to make restitution and beg pardon of people through your paper that I have wronged. When I was in the butcher business in Akron 1 mixed tallow with my lard and sold it to my customers. I ask all of these people in Jesus’ name to forgive me of the offense: and if there are any who are not satisfied with just forgiving me, if they will send me a statement of the amount that they think they were wronged, honestly, between God and man, 1 will make all wrongs right." It will be remembered by Sentinel readers that Spera, some time ago, sent some money to Viers & Wicks, the flour mill proprietors, of this city, but formerly of Akron, to cover a shortage in weight of a load of corn that he had sold them. The shortage was due to a quantity of water he had poured over the corn before taking it to market.— Rochester Sentinel. For Life or Good Service. Eight Elkhart county postmasters were given positions for life by President Roosevelts action in blanketing all Indiana fourth class postoffices under civil service on Tuesday. This removes them perpetually from the domination of the representatives. The president’s action affects thirteen states and in all 15,475 offices, in which the salaries range from nothing to SI,OOO. Ihe fourth-class offices affected in this county are Benton, Bristol, Foraker, Middlebury, Millersburg, New Paris and Wakarusa —Elkhart Review. Unanswerable. A republican orator concluded his speech with the announcement that he would be glad to answer any argument put forward by the other side. An old Irish-American citizen accept ed the challenge. “Eight years ago,” he said, “they told us to vote for Bryan, an’ thot we’d be prosperous. Oi did vote for Bryan, an Oi’ve niver been so prosperous in all me loife, an’ now, begorry, Oi'm goin’ to vote for him again!"—Everybody’s Magazine. Satisfaction, Below we give the names of satisfied customers to whom we sold the Gagan Washer, the machine that is guaranteed to wash your clothes without rubbing or boiling: Chae. Beechgood, James Jackson John Flack, sr.; Obe Dipert, Nel Hershberger, A. C. Borden, D. Bennett, Myron Chase, Wm. Anderson, George Comerford, and J. M. Schroeder. For sale at Machinery Hall. Patronize home industry. Buy your bread at Smith’s bakery, We bake genuine rye bread. There will be a free band concert by the Walkerton Military Band in front I 't the opera house before. the Merry Widow McCarty Show Saturday evening, December 19. New York city’s growth is shown by the increased demand on the water supply, which has made it necessary to furnish 15,000,000 more gallons each year for the last ten years. Feel languid, weak, run down? Headache? Stomach “off”?—J ust a plain case of lazy liver. Burdock Blood Bitters tones liver and stomach, promotes digestion, aids digestion, purifies the blood,

Treated I For Hydrophobia Harry Ma® WO H and Meade Titlow have returned ■from Chicago where they underwent a ®ouree of treatment at the Pasteur InstilA u t o for the prevention of hydrophobia. I Both were bitten by a dog afterward® proven to have been mad but they Shad started treatment in time and were i® no danger. They were pleased with t® o excellent manner in which they wer® treated at the institute and are assure® that no ill effects will result from th®ir experience with the exception of a 9 slight nervousness, an effect of the P« feur serum injection. —Delphi Jouma ’ improvements • the Waterworks nt. The water r 1 and electric light plants are recei og some fine interior improvements ir i the way of neatly painted ce’Jx^ row white calcomined walls ar^Z^^e al over-hauling and “fdFarfhifmßMß anhag- N^xtspring the grounds sur ndiog the plant will probably be sow- with grass seed and shade trees will set out to beautify the place. To Vote _ /et or Dry. Petitions with JLonsiderable over the number of signeiJs required have been filed in Wabash And Whitley counties, asking for an eiAetion on county option. Santa Claus’ headquarters for Christmas candies are at jSmith’s restaurant. Spare ribs, backbone and tenderloin on sale while, we ti e packing at Bose’s market. ■ “I suffered hatlitually from constipation. Doan’s llegulets relieved and strengthened the fcowele, so that they have been regular! ever since.”—A. E. Davis, grocer, Sulphur Springs, Tex. An opinion prevails that life can be restored after legal electrocution. A test is to be madil on a man in New Jersey, who has Iheen sentenced to death by electrocuAou. Physicians are going to make th* experiment, but if successful the prAsecutor insists that the criminal will halve to submit to another ordeal to cpLy out sentence of the law that the Aisoner be "put to death Where ^oAd. the condemned man gain anything iAthe transaction’ TO TEST mIoRE LAW. Did County Optiy Repeal RemonStrange Njment The question o^MbWher the county local option taw ^repealed The Moore remonstrance la^Wgkrobably bo determined by the ouT^rne of litigation that has been begul it three counties. At Bloomington, Nl^castle and Fort Wayne legal action l 0 decide the present force of the ren| on atrdncd ia.v has been started. In eJ c h caso there are applicants for licemA in districts made dry by remonstrance! anc i the applicants maintain that the Remonstrances that have been in effect teased to have effect when the local option act became a law. I REAL ETATE’ OPPORTUNITIES — p80 acres within 5 i files o f South Bend at $4,500. 130 acres within 6 miles of South Bend at $8,500 80 acres, good so y near Teegarden for $3,600. * 122 acres at $6,300 40 acres at $2,000 Halt cash, balance a t 6 per cent on all these farms. TOWN Pl lOPERTY I have a good pt O| )or ty for sale within three blocks of thefg an k; will offer for a short time at s7Oh_jioo cash, $8 per ! month. Will sell c n contract if taken soon. 4 J. E. BOSE in. MF - Cheer T lings Up For your family an 1 the visiting friends who are - o ‘I on Xmas day, by having blazing fir R and warmth and comfort througnou the house. If your coal is low in the no, do not run any chances, but 'pho :e us at once, and we will Hustle II Right Up and have it in yo ;r ce.lar before you know it. You ma, be sure the grade will be of the sam\ excellence as th it which we always tend you, and the pricei, too, will be t ie same as usual. SEE US BEB^RE BUYING J, * - ' We Have the B st Coal in Town Walkerton ~ .umber Co.

I T HERE f no wa y for us to prove that we’re doing this Clothes-Selling busi- I i Siisi „7 s ! be “ er ' „ ever except to P rove * here in the store. All we can | . o here is to tell you about it; we ll have to wait until you come here to | convince you of the fact. • Merry Xmas AOaR SUGGESTIONS FOR “HIM" I : ~ — ■ ■ Suit Underwear Shirt? ■ Overcoat Handkerchiefs Gloves ■ —Rain Coat House Coat Hosiery i Night Robe Suspenders Muffler I Umbrella Ties *A What to give “HIM” for Christmas ■ ’ s a P ro bl e m we solve many times a day. H O Ur s ^ ore being Headquarters for B U 9 a ^en’s things, the question is very easily H an swered. For men, both old and B 'X/ young - , great and small, we’ve ideal I gifts—just the sort of gifts that will be f Ki- the most, after Christmas p " is over. from our stock of Men’s excellent Garments, correct Headwear and choice Haberdashery the most appropriate Christmas gifts it is possible to make, can be chosen. I , your selections early, while the picking is the best. Better now g than later. You’ll find our prices no barrier to choosing exactly what you’d like to . give “him.” See our fancy line of Men s Slippers. In fact, we have so many things, the best and only way is to come in and let us show you what we have. i - g Kn n N T 7 THE globe W U 89 I 4 CLOTHIER" 8 Ciotliiers, Hatters and Haberdashers

/w Useful and OrAa.mental things are both found in our stock. From a ten-penny nail to a wheel barrow you will find the ROSS HARDWARE STORE can supply your wants. Carvers, Keys and Locks Agate and Tinware Carpenters’ Supplies, etc. We keep all, and sell all of them at a very low figure. They are beet quality goods, too. Don’t forget us. GEO, P. ROSS D. ARMSTRONG Lock Smith and Safe Expert Umbrellas, Rubber Stamps and General Repairer 130 N. Michigan St, South Bend Mrs Mcßansy’s Experience. Mrs. M, Meßaney, Prentiss, Mise., writes: “I was confined to my bed for three months with kidney and bladder trouble, and was treated by two phyeicianj but failed to get relief. No human tongue can tell how I suffered, and I had given up hope of ever getting well until I began taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy. After taking two bottles 1 felt lika a new person, and feel it my duty to tell suffering women what Foley’s Kidney Remedy did for me.” Sold by Red Cross Drug Store. For holiday suggestions read the Independent’s advertising columns, Cheapest accident insurance—Dr Thomas’ Eclectric Oil. Stops the pain and heals the wound. AH druggists sell it.

iffliininnwimn^^ HOLIDAY 1 PRESENTS! \\ e have goods for Holiday Presents, such as Silk Scarfs, Band- 1 kerchiefs, Band= i Bags, etc. g Call and see us when shopping in this line. DRY GOODS DEP T. 1 is full of goods. Dress Goods, Outings, Blankets, Underwear, for Men Women and Children g You can find Bargains in our SHOE DEPARTMENT | Groceries Alwa s | at the right prices. Bring in your reduce, Butter, Eggs and Poultry and get Highest Afarket Price 3 Yours for Business Grider Mercantile Go. 11 .UUIUUUiUUUUUIUIUIUUUIUUiUIU!^

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